Combination seed envelope and marker



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Patented Sept. 1, 1942 COMBINATION SEED ENVELOIE AND MARK Ida MayMooney, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Application March 27, 1941, Serial No. 385,490

(Cl. 20G-47) 1 Claim.

This invention relates to a combination seed envelope and marker. Aftera section of a garden has been sown With seed, it has been customary tomark the seeded area by putting the empty envelope in the cleft end of astick and then pushing the other end of the stick in the ground. Thismethod has several disadvantages. In the first place, the gardener hasto hunt around for the requisite sticks. Secondly, the paper of theenvelopes is apt to disintegrate, lose its shape, or accumulate dirt tosuch an extent that the printing thereon is not readily legible.Further, the use of a torn envelope as a label gives an untidyappearance to the flower bed.

The object of the present invention is to provide means for eliminatingthese disadvantages.

According to the present invention a substantial-ly permanent markerhaving the name of the seed printed thereon is attached to each seedenvelope.

Usually the marker is glued onto the front of the envelope along onelongitudinal margin, the printing on the envelope being offset laterallyto provide a blank strip for the marker. In that way none of the printedmatter on the envelope is concealed by the marker.

One advantage of a printed marker secured to the envelope is that itenables a' standard form of seed envelope to be used for all varietiesof seed, the marker functioning as the label to indicate the characterof seed in the envelope.

While a large range of materials may be used for making the markers,thin strips of wood have been found very satisfactory. It often happensthat after a heavy rain so much mud and earth has been spattered ontothe marker that it is rendered illegible, Wooden markers can be lilreadily cleaned sufficiently to enable them to be read by running afinger over the surface. That is not ordinarily practicable when themarkers used are made of paper, such as the discarded seed envelope.

Cleaning wooden markers suiciently to enable them to be easily read isfacilitated by the fact that the type used in printing digs into thesurface of the wood so that the ink is slightly below the surface of themarker as a whole. This facilitates cleaning the marker Without removingthe printing.

A combination envelope and marker is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view of an envelope and its attached marker, and

Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

It will be noted that the envelope I has printed thereon the trade-nameand trade-mark symbol of the distributor of the seed, but no indicationof the character of the seed. As a result, one set of envelopes only isrequired for the entire line cf seeds put on the market. The marker 2 isa thin pointed strip of wood with the name of the seed printed thereon.The marker is attached to the envelope by glue or any other suitablemeans.

I claim:

The combination of a seed envelope having the printed matter thereonoffset laterally to leave a blank space along one longitudinal margin,with a Wooden marker secured to the outside of the envelope and lyingsubstantially Within the boundaries thereof in said blank space, saidmarker having printed thereon the name of the seed in the envelope.

IDA MAY MOONEY.

